In this episode, we explore what it is that makes a place seem important and special in a personal way… There was a lovely post on LinkedIn the other day from my colleague Bard Papegaaij, reflecting on that theme of ‘Country’ that we explored here a couple of months ago.
Great article Tom. In my book that nobody except relatives has purchased and nobody except my editor and me have read, I am discussing the notion of an individual's character ( his/her stable personality), its emergence in context, and the notion of compatibility between it and its meta-context, one's expanded place of emergence (expanded in the sense of nature and culture, where culture combines the imposed political distortions and history). I am an immigrant, I worked and lived in many places, and after more than three decades of "research" I still don't' have a 100% match, although Canada is my home. The thing is that context and your understanding of it change, hence the "home" you left, at least on the surface, is not the "home" you return to.
But then, I have not returned except as a tourist and I am extrapolating on that basis ....
Great article Tom. In my book that nobody except relatives has purchased and nobody except my editor and me have read, I am discussing the notion of an individual's character ( his/her stable personality), its emergence in context, and the notion of compatibility between it and its meta-context, one's expanded place of emergence (expanded in the sense of nature and culture, where culture combines the imposed political distortions and history). I am an immigrant, I worked and lived in many places, and after more than three decades of "research" I still don't' have a 100% match, although Canada is my home. The thing is that context and your understanding of it change, hence the "home" you left, at least on the surface, is not the "home" you return to.
But then, I have not returned except as a tourist and I am extrapolating on that basis ....